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Institut für Molekulare Evolution

Willkommen am Institut für Molekulare Evolution an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Unsere Forschungsinteressen sind frühe Evolution, der Ursprung des Lebens, die Entstehung des Stoffwechsels durch H2-abhängige CO2-Reduktion an hydrothermalen Quellen auf der frühen Erde, Endosymbiose, Zellevolution und Genomevolution.

 


Aktuelles

Helena Kauppila visualized the Moon-Forming Impact, inspired by and with scientific advice from William Martin.

Helena Kauppila is a visual artist with a doctorate in mathematics, deeply fascinated by complex systems and the phenomena of emergence.

Have a look on her website and more paintings from her here.


14.11.2024 Graduation | Delfina Henriques Pereira

Delfina Henriques Pereira successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled

"Cofactors and H2 metabolism at the origin of life".


The Geochemical Origin of Microbes

CRC Press, Boca Raton (2024)

doi: 10.1201/9781003378617

Abstract


Chemical antiquity in metabolism

Acc Chem Res (2024)

doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00226


21.03.2024 Publication | PNAS

Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 121:e2318969121 (2024)

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2318969121

Press release HHU (English)

Pressemitteilung HHU (Deutsch)

Overview of attention


Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans

Science 383:eadj9223 (2024)

doi: 10.1126/science.adj9223

Press release HHU (English)

Pressemitteilung HHU (Deutsch)

Overview of attention


William Martin speaks about the origin of life

Evolutionsbiologe Professor Martin erklärt, wie das Leben entstanden ist

 


William Martin receives the 2023 Kimura Motoo Award by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology:

For the outstanding works on “early evolution of eukaryotic organisms”


13.12.2023 Graduation | Alexander MacLeod

Alexander MacLeod successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled

"On the phylogenetic distribution of plastid developmental components in the chloroplastida".


Exhibition in the University Library:

Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life

Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition

Deutsch/English

Verlängert/Extended: Aug 27, 2023


03.07.2023 Graduation | Falk Nagies

Falk Nagies successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled

"Patterns and causes of gene evolution over long evolutionary distances in prokaryotes ".


Exhibition in the botanical garden: Grün, Steine, Erde – Unsere Welt im Wandel

Website for the exhibition


Exhibition in the University Library:

Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life

Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition

Deutsch/English

May 10 – July 20, 2023


William Martin speaks about the origin and early evolution of life


The ancestral mitotic state: Closed orthomitosis with intranuclear spindles in the syncytial last eukaryotic common ancestor

Genome Biology and Evolution evad016 (2023)

doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad016


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